Andrea Liu (AIR) – Dance Rants: Queer Apotheosis

Datum začátku:

9.7.2018, 20:00

Místo konání:

Prague

Místo:

Petrohradská kolektiv

Admission:

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Andrea Liu (AIR) – Dance Rants: Queer Apotheosis

“Dance Rants” is a hybrid format that combines dance, rants, and a communal gathering of queer perspectives, building bridges between Queer New York and Queer Prague. We will adress random topics related to the politics of Queer collectivity—such as…

(1) the metamorphosis of the word “queer” from 1970’s to present
(2) NYC queer art collectives (Gran Fury, Fierce Pussy, Tracy & the Plastics, ACT-UP, Radical Faeries, LTTR)
(3) a magical militant apparatus of the Eunuch as Ideal Human/ Tranvescites, Hermaphrodites Eunuchs and those who have eluded the gender binary
(4) Israel’s instrumentalization of LGBT rights to pink-wash their military occupation of Palestine

Or any other topics the audience wishes to discuss.

Bring your frustrations, your exasperations, your expostulations, your thought experiments, your questions, and your rants. During discussion we are gonna attempt to build bridges between queer theory and the lived experiences of LGBT people in New York City and Prague. All the energy and tension built up from the rant/discussion, we will then release through dance. We’re gonna rant, then we’re gonna dance; we’re gonna rant, then we’re gonna dance; we’re gonna rant, then we’re gonna dance.
*5 minute Dance Performance by Andrea Liu at 8:30, 9:00, and 9:30

Dance Against a movement Inculcated so many times as to acquire a rote automatism

Dance Against the Patrician Impulse to Envelop Oneself in a Cocoon of an Insipidly Respectable ‘Elegance’

Queer is an affect, a position in society, a lock-out , a shut-down, an orgiastic glee, a sublimation, a fugitive glance, a plastered band-aid with an artificial sheen on a wound, a lackadaisical Great Refusal, a sardonic demurring when offered the plate of Sanctioned and Approved Respectability